Mechanism of disinhibition after brain lesions

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 185, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 108-114

  Starkstein, Sergio E ^a   Robinson, Robert G ^b  

^a Instituto de Investigaciones Neurologicas Raul Carrera   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INJURY; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; INHIBITION KINETICS; INTELLIGENCE; MANIA; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DELIRIUM, DEMENTIA, AMNESTIC, COGNITIVE DISORDERS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RISK FACTORS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0031028658     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-199702000-00007     Document Type: Short Survey

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